Crater Lake National Park News

The Oregon Community Foundation has announced grant awards of nearly $500,000 to Southern Oregon nonprofit organizations for basic needs, education and the arts.

Each time I have been to Crater Lake National Park it has been with at least one person who has never been there before.

Oregon is a unique and wonderful place if you are looking for natural wonder. Anyone who has visited here would be forced to agree, even if they didn't like the place overall.

During the first week of August, the Berriman family of Martinez - Bill, Cheryl, Sean, 12, and Billy, 8 - packed up their pickup to explore the coast of Northern California and southern Oregon.

Crater Lake National Park is looking for people to volunter at the park weekends this winter.

A spokesman for Mount Rushmore National Memorial says Superintendent Gerard Baker is on an unexpected medical leave and that an acting superintendent has taken over for the next several weeks.

By Ron Brown A November 13, 2009 A MEDFORD, Ore. Medford Resident Paul Wright was familiar with the problems of snow removal.

CRATER LAKE - Crater Lake officials have announced the annual closure of Rim Drive and the North Entrance due to anticipated ice and snow.

Crater Lake National Park's north entrance and Rim Drive have closed for the winter.

By Bob Devlin A proposed timber sale in the Umpqua National Forest deserves serious public attention.

One way to enjoy the weather in Oregon is to go for a nice hike during the winter months.

The Interior Appropriations Bill passed this week includes $1 million for the project.

A strong cold front sweeping into Southern Oregon this afternoon and evening will send temperatures plummeting.

Interpretive ranger Don Clark, a permanent employee currently assigned to Crater Lake National Park, gives a talk on the deep blue lake's physical, chemical, and biological characteristics.

Had a great time touring and hiking in the three parks. Probably the most impressive single thing of all the unique features of these three parks was Crater Lake itself - a huge deep blue lake in the middle of the crater of a huge volcano.

The scale of this place is mind-boggling. That tiny white dot near the center of the photo is a tour boat making its way through Skell Channel, the narrow passage between Wizard Island and Hillman Slide.

Staffers at southern Oregon's Crater Lake National Park and Northern California's Lava Beds National Monument say they had more visitors this summer, apparently because people decided to save money by vacationing closer to home.

As with all of Ken Burns' documentaries, the subjects he tackles are vast and can't always give vital details on every single place or person.

Created in 1848 as the Oregon Territory, and located on the Pacific Coast of the United States, Oregon is the home of the Columbia and Snake Rivers.

By Don Bona 1. What U.S. national park has a lake with no inlet or outlet and is supplied by only by the melting snow, which is on average 533 inches per year? Lake Clark National Park in Alaska; Glacier National Park in Montana; Crater Lake National Park in Oregon; North Cascades National Park in Washington.